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Gladys West died January 17 at age 95, leaving an extraordinary legacy in mathematics and geodesy.
Here’s my portrait and bio 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡
Here’s my portrait and bio 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡
For #BlackHistoryMonth: mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🐡🧪👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! 🧵1/n
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Gladys West died January 17 at age 95, leaving an extraordinary legacy in mathematics and geodesy.
Here’s my portrait and bio 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡
Here’s my portrait and bio 👩🏾🔬🧪🐡
It seems an appropriate time for a cat picture
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
It seems an appropriate time for a cat picture
Called and left voicemails. Please do the same if you can. 5calls.org makes it really easy to get the phone numbers!
Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please.
Script.
Script.
January 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Called and left voicemails. Please do the same if you can. 5calls.org makes it really easy to get the phone numbers!
It me
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
December 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It me
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In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine
After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
I did it! I remembered to buy sleds BEFORE snow was forecast and everywhere sold out. Now to see if we actually get any sledding snow this winter...
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I did it! I remembered to buy sleds BEFORE snow was forecast and everywhere sold out. Now to see if we actually get any sledding snow this winter...
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Just finished The Summer War by Naomi Novik. What a delight! I read it in one sitting and wish it were longer, but its brevity contributed to its magic.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just finished The Summer War by Naomi Novik. What a delight! I read it in one sitting and wish it were longer, but its brevity contributed to its magic.
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if you’re still looking for a Halloween costume, someone made a ready-to-print version of the heisted Louvre jewels
💍💎👑
www.etsy.com/listing/4392...
💍💎👑
www.etsy.com/listing/4392...
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
if you’re still looking for a Halloween costume, someone made a ready-to-print version of the heisted Louvre jewels
💍💎👑
www.etsy.com/listing/4392...
💍💎👑
www.etsy.com/listing/4392...
So many of these are so similar to conversations I've had. Looking forward to enjoying the nap comix in physical form!
Nap Comix #333
I'll be honest with you...I've been saving this one for the Kickstarter launch day. It's one of my fave conversations with Henry, haha!
ALSO: Oh my GOSH we are over halfway funded already??
I'm...flabbergasted. Thank you so much!
Check it out here (please):
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll be honest with you...I've been saving this one for the Kickstarter launch day. It's one of my fave conversations with Henry, haha!
ALSO: Oh my GOSH we are over halfway funded already??
I'm...flabbergasted. Thank you so much!
Check it out here (please):
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So many of these are so similar to conversations I've had. Looking forward to enjoying the nap comix in physical form!
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Nap Comix #333
I'll be honest with you...I've been saving this one for the Kickstarter launch day. It's one of my fave conversations with Henry, haha!
ALSO: Oh my GOSH we are over halfway funded already??
I'm...flabbergasted. Thank you so much!
Check it out here (please):
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll be honest with you...I've been saving this one for the Kickstarter launch day. It's one of my fave conversations with Henry, haha!
ALSO: Oh my GOSH we are over halfway funded already??
I'm...flabbergasted. Thank you so much!
Check it out here (please):
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Nap Comix #333
I'll be honest with you...I've been saving this one for the Kickstarter launch day. It's one of my fave conversations with Henry, haha!
ALSO: Oh my GOSH we are over halfway funded already??
I'm...flabbergasted. Thank you so much!
Check it out here (please):
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll be honest with you...I've been saving this one for the Kickstarter launch day. It's one of my fave conversations with Henry, haha!
ALSO: Oh my GOSH we are over halfway funded already??
I'm...flabbergasted. Thank you so much!
Check it out here (please):
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
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3rd of Owltober!
Screech Owl Burrito during an exam at Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, with the original caption: "Wrapped for release, not for takeout."
Want to donate to BPRC? bpraptorcenter.org/donate/ Source: fb.com/111880310361... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉
Screech Owl Burrito during an exam at Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, with the original caption: "Wrapped for release, not for takeout."
Want to donate to BPRC? bpraptorcenter.org/donate/ Source: fb.com/111880310361... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉
October 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
3rd of Owltober!
Screech Owl Burrito during an exam at Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, with the original caption: "Wrapped for release, not for takeout."
Want to donate to BPRC? bpraptorcenter.org/donate/ Source: fb.com/111880310361... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉
Screech Owl Burrito during an exam at Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, with the original caption: "Wrapped for release, not for takeout."
Want to donate to BPRC? bpraptorcenter.org/donate/ Source: fb.com/111880310361... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉
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Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
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We have won on hard mode before. We can do it again.
July 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We have won on hard mode before. We can do it again.
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Anybody else having a Langston Hughes 4th of July? Read the last stanza twice: allpoetry.com/Let-America-...
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: Let America be America again. / Let it be the dream it used to be.
allpoetry.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Anybody else having a Langston Hughes 4th of July? Read the last stanza twice: allpoetry.com/Let-America-...
Cross stitch. I get to make tiny little regular Xs following a pattern AND stab something.
After the 2016 election, I got super-into tennis and fanfic; in 2020, I started obsessing over my rock collection; and I'm now really into...hand-turned wooden bowls? And diamond painting? And LEGO sets?
Have the rest of you picked up new hobbies/obsessive interests to calm your anxiety too?
Have the rest of you picked up new hobbies/obsessive interests to calm your anxiety too?
June 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Cross stitch. I get to make tiny little regular Xs following a pattern AND stab something.
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Also note that the color of your swimsuit matters for visibility in emergencies www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/h...
June 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Also note that the color of your swimsuit matters for visibility in emergencies www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/h...
I really enjoyed John Scalzi's "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." It treats the absurd premise very seriously (albeit with lots of quippy characters and cheese puns).
June 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I really enjoyed John Scalzi's "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." It treats the absurd premise very seriously (albeit with lots of quippy characters and cheese puns).
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Some say the world will end in FOIA
Some say in ICE
Some say in ICE
April 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Some say the world will end in FOIA
Some say in ICE
Some say in ICE
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💀The Mimic💀
DnD meets Monster Hunter! Parts of the slain Monster are turned into clothes and armour ⚔️
DnD meets Monster Hunter! Parts of the slain Monster are turned into clothes and armour ⚔️
March 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
💀The Mimic💀
DnD meets Monster Hunter! Parts of the slain Monster are turned into clothes and armour ⚔️
DnD meets Monster Hunter! Parts of the slain Monster are turned into clothes and armour ⚔️
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Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.
Left voicemails with my senators, chatted with a very nice staffer of my representative. Going to take a break and then call the State AG. Thanks to @swantower.bsky.social, @celestepewter.bsky.social and @5calls.org for sharing scripts and phone numbers.
February 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Left voicemails with my senators, chatted with a very nice staffer of my representative. Going to take a break and then call the State AG. Thanks to @swantower.bsky.social, @celestepewter.bsky.social and @5calls.org for sharing scripts and phone numbers.